<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200502-31"> <title>uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability</title> <synopsis> Under certain conditions, applications linked against uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">uim</product> <announced>2005-02-28</announced> <revised count="01">2005-02-28</revised> <bug>82678</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-i18n/uim" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.4.5.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.4.5.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library. </p> </background> <description> <p> Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with USE="immqt" or USE="immqt-bc"). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All uim users should upgrade to the latest available version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-i18n/uim-0.4.5.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0503">CAN-2005-0503</uri> <uri link="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/uim/2005-February/000996.html">uim announcement</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-25T09:53:35Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-27T12:40:49Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-28T08:59:25Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>